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Mr James
That's a lot of added detail👍 and the figures are superb. Well done on the faces especially the eyes 👌

5sHHH1rrrr03
Thx !

Pepe
Looking

Neuling
Very promising pictures .........

Pietro De Angelis
Amazing details and figures!

Robert Podkoński
Beautiful model and fantastic photos. Congrats!

Mr James
Excellent weathered painting. A beautiful build 👍

Pepe
Wooooooow!!!!!

Neuling
I agree with everyone above!

Pietro De Angelis
Beautiful Lightning, congrats!

Alex K
Another Gorby-licious small-scale "weird" (we wouldn't want you any other way) creation... Definitely in! 👍

gorby
Welcome to the show Alex and thanks very much. 🙂
The buildy bit is nearly complete so, as usual I'm playing catch-up with the report. Hopefully another update tomorrow. 🙂

David Taylor
Back in.

Robert Podkoński
Another talent-show from gorby! Definitely in!

Jay Dubya
Front row seat, on the bleachers, please Gorby. I wouldn't want to crane my neck to see!

Ben M
🪑

gorby
Thanks for your interest mates. I hope not to disappoint. 🙂

John Hughes
Another build in the series "What's gorby up to now?" Be honest, though. The only reason you didn't have orange flares was that you couldn't get over the fence at the local airfield to steal a couple of windsocks!

Kesa Tiho
I dont understand anything thats going on but i hope your build turns out absolutely stunning

gorby
That made me laugh John. 😄
Kesa: I like to buildodd looking vehicles some of which are converted from standard kits. I looooove scratch building.
Thanks both for tagging along. 🙂

Kesa Tiho
Scale models can be converted? So like a F111 model could be fitted with a nuke even though the original model didnt have one?

gorby
Fantastic modelling and photography!

Jim Bob McCabe
This is bloody marvellous! Hats off to you, Simon, for such an inspired idea and excellent execution of the subject. You can almost hear that gull calling....

Alec K
Great concept and implementation 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Highly impressive, love the water effect 👍

Spanjaard
fully agree with all of he above. splendid. I love how you combined the figures to keep the steel wire in place

Mr James
Beautifully presented 👌

Vincent
I agree with Mr James. This looks great🙂

Thomas Kolb
Amazingly done diorama! Beautiful painteork and stunning presentation!

Robert Podkoński
What else could be said about the model, idea, and photos... Chapeau bas!

Shar Dipree
Awesome, fantastics work! 👍

Neuling
Very very good! 👍👍

Jan Peters
Very nice indeed 👍🏻
Nice model, well set scene and nice and atmospheric photography.

Bruce Huxtable
Superb observation of so much subtle detail, perfectly executed. Loving the moody images too 🙂

Florian H.
Da schau ich mal zu

Dave Flitton
Massive! where are you going to put it?

BAT21
Right next to my Mi-22 😉

Yellow 23 | Album by BAT21 (1:72)

Alec K
Another monster! I am in 👍

Nicolas
Ich nehm mir auch mal nen Stuhl.

BAT21
Welcome on board.

Thomas Kolb
Cool! This I just need to follow!

Robert Podkoński
Me too!

BAT21
I'm glad you're part of this project.

Robert Podkoński
I have uploaded a few photos of Polish Mi-6 before and after restoration here:
Once there was a collection | Album by podkon ; and here:
Polish Air Force Museum - Dęblin | Album by podkon. Perhaps you will find them useful.

BAT21
👍

Ekki
Watching.

Michael Kohl
BAT21 builds a chopper? Not without me!

BAT21
Thank you very much for your interest.

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Can't wait to see it finish !

Florian H.
Sehr schön, Gratulation zu diesem Ergebnis 👍

BAT21
Danke Florian.

Bernd Grün
Promising start. 👍🏻 Following with interest!

BAT21
It's nice that the audience seats are filling up.

Alec K
Solid progress 👍

Alexander Grivonev
Habe den Kit seit Jahren im Besitz, traue mich aber nicht ran. Was für ein Monster👍

BAT21
Wer bei der Tu 128 von Trumpeter alle Fehler in Perfektion beseitigt hat, muss sich nicht vor der Mi-6 fürchten.
Etwas Spachtelmasse und Schleifpapier bereitlegen... und schon kann es losgehen 😉

Alexander Grivonev
Ja das war wirklich eine Baustelle das Ding. Aber trotz des Ehrgeizes der Chinesen, dem Modellbauer auch den letzten Nerv zu rauben, sieht mir Amodel so auf den ersten Blick nach mehr Arbeit aus...

Gergő Takács
Wow! Very cool Project! I will take a seat! 🙂

Pierre Pierre
Following

BAT21
Feel welcome mates.

Michael Kohl
Starts to look like a Mil Mi-6? Well, then it's time to charge the teaser to a picture of your model. 😉

Juergen Klinglhuber
Joining in late, but sure worth it. Clean built on this "filling the gaps" giant. 👍

Treehugger
Q: The tiny "brass" colored tubes for the wiring on the main rotor head, are those bits of cut up syringe tips?

BAT21
For these parts I cut 0.5mm brass tubes from Albion Alloys.

Spanjaard
rotor head is truly impressive

Alec K
I agree, pimped to the hilt 👍

Casey Beckett
Recently discovered Albion Alloys here - lovely stuff!

BAT21
Many thanks guys, much appreciated.

CaptGPF
That rotor work is sick!
…but so is the PE cockpit work at this scale! Watching!

Alec K
Excellent progress 👍

Łukasz Gliński
On the pic #35 it looks professional, not provisional 😉

Florian H.
Sehr schönes farbspiel

BAT21
Many thanks 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Yes it is time 👍 Brilliant shading btw

Michael Kohl
Great finish

Erik
"So what do you think? Time to remove the masks from the windows?"
Yes! 👍 😉

BAT21
Thank you mates.
The self-cut masks on the side windows revealed a catastrophic picture after removal: something sticky remained on the windows... the hoped-for cover was also rather poor, the paint got under the masks at the edges. 🤬

Now I'll make a calming coffee and then try to repair it.

Alec K
Damn, that sucks. I had same experience on several builds, nothing some scraping and reapplication of Future can't fix.

Thomas Kolb
That's unfortunate, but maybe you can remove the tape residue with some IPA alcohol and cotton buds?

BAT21
I scraped everything off with a toothpick, more or less. Not the best result, but the model was able to avoid being thrown away.

Mr D
Very nicely done, great panel shading 👌 Brilliant 👍👍👍

Mr D
Nicely done 👍 Great panel shading 👌, Brilliant 👍👍

Guy Rump
A very good result, you wouldn't realise the issues you had. 👍

Spanjaard
seems you recovered pretty well from the problem, congratulations great result

Ekki
Very, very good chopper!
Well done.

Nicolas
Great result. 👍

BAT21
Thanks mates, much appreciated

Rui S
Excellent as always 👍

BAT21
With the attachment of the last parts and the assembly of the antenna forest, the helicopter is finished and the project is complete.

Thanks to everyone who has been part of this strenuous journey... and now have fun with the final pictures.

Łukasz Gliński
Respect for the antennas. It looks great in the taiga 👍

Spanjaard
congrats on a great model

Neuling
Top work and photos!

Ronan
Very nice, congrats 👍

Neuling
Clean and careful work!

Neuling
Looking forward ...........

Dietmar Bogatzki
great build and paintjob

Thomas E.
thank you for your comment and likes. TT

Thomas Espe
Great builds. Following 👀

Neuling
Top small scale diorama!